[rfc] bug targeting in Launchpad

[Martin Pool]

2009/6/15 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
> Martin Pool writes:
>
>  > Perhaps it's better to have the release milestone be only things that
>  > must be done.  Then separately make sure that almost-done work gets
>  > finished by driving to zero the review queue and the fix-committed and
>  > in-progress bug lists.
>
> By "separately" you mean "not the RM's job," right?<wink>

Right.

>  > I think it should be the milestone page, which implies there must be a
>  > bug for it. If it's important enough to want to hit a particular
>  > release it's not an excessive burden to create a bug record.
>
> Does launchpad support blocker bugs (bug dependencies)?  Having the
> milestone bug be blocked by the release blocker bugs would seem to the
> best interface, since the blocker list would have links to the bugs
> themselves.

Unfortunately it does not yet record dependencies between bugs.

A milestone is not a bug, it's a different type of object with links
to/from bugs, eg https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+milestone/1.16


-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>